Enigma in PvP? lol I am sorry but lol …
Charge+Vigor+125FCR+de-sync game >>>> Engima
in order to not be significantly inefficient compared to a sorc it is needed by most.
Sure - hammerdin
2 spirits, lore on the head, smoke on the chest, insight on holy freeze merc and rare rings with res/FCR, rare boots with res/FHR, crafted ammy with +2 skill/FCR or res, crafted belt with FCR/FHR and you will be GOLDEN in hell solo game. Heck you can farm Chaos Sanctuary with Diablo equally easy.
try gloom instead. 1200+ def on a duskshroud and huge utility/survivability with the free blinds
+FHR/str/45allres
make a sorc put that gear on it and farm much faster instead.
Smoke 
+50 res to all free other slots for FCR/FHR 20FHR also helps but with 110 FHR that comes with 2x Spirits its not that critical. Yes it give you a little less defense (smoke in Dusk Shroud comes with about 810-850 base defense) with Holy Shield you will end up with 7k+ defense.
Viper works just fine on all of those. You won’t be able to teleport ofcourse.
good for BM pub PK but only noobs fall for this…hence why pally are rarely used in GM PvP… bone nec/wind druid/trap sin/ghost/hybsin/bvc/blizz/fb > any pally in GM.
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I have never really cared about Enigma personally. I mean it’s for endgame but ANY build is doable and viable without Enigma. I have almost all of my chars (all 7 classes) between levels 60-80 (except sorc… she is level 40 something. I find her boring to play for some reason). I have personally gone for builds that are not that common either like Fendazon, Werebear Druid , Holy Freeze Zealot, Elemental Assassin and Thrower Barb. My necro is a plain old summoner with CE but I have Trang’s set on him and I absolutely love it. Sorc is still a fire build of some kind (I don’t play her that much).
No build requires engima. Without it you just lose the teleport and the str that is it. Nothing more nothing less. Its a efficiency piece like many said, it is not required by any means.
You will find Enigma in nearly every build. You will also find it in every single PVP build that isn’t a sorc. Teleport is one of the mistakes of D2 and the primary reason it was nerfed into the dirt in D3.
If we ever do get any new content (fat chance), hopefully there will be more reason to take other items in this slot.
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eh enigma pretty much opened up PvP for all classes…pre 1.10 PK was not balanced…
if you want PvP without Enigma go play non-expansion.
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No build really requires any item, those lists usually give the top items per build, you can beat the game with pretty much any item you find.
After beating the game, the game pretty much becomes perfecting your character. Then getting items like Enigma becomes the goal you work towards. After getting all the top items, you get bored and make a new character, or if you are not right in the head you run Baal 10000 times to get to level 99
Trapsin already runs around like a Ferrari. Doesn’t really need enigma at all. Was my first pit runner for D2R release and did extremely well. Snagged plenty of HRs and super rare uniques without an enigma. Have a 2 assassin/15ar amulet with tele charges on her now, but only use tele to reposition merc or avoid the occasional wall. Means I can also ignore fcr mostly since I’m not using it constantly. Claw block and more IAS for faster traps is better than enigma. Pvp is a different story, but you don’t need it for pvm
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Becoz the one who made the guide has 10x level 99 toons and he shares his 1x Enigma to all of them.
I am done with the game with my Hammerdin. Do I need an Enigma to faceroll the game? Nope. Tomb Vipers, Stygian Dolls, Ghosts, Doom Lords, Nihlathak, Summoner, Mephisto, Diablo, Baal, everything… are all being facerolled by my Hammerdin over and over. Do I need a Teleport? I have a Staff that teleports that I could switch weapon to, do I need it? Nope.
I am just toying around this game to see what other runes I could get. And there’s a pretty good chance that I may not get Enigma even if I play more for 4 hours a day for the next 3 months. I dont have anything to use it for anyway.
Yeah, enigma is not really the best option when farming. Farming is about killing as many monster possible, and you only need to teleport once or twice to position, and not teleport through the map, which can be easily done with teleport charges.
Bramble is a much better option for poison necros farming than enigma, but all guides list enigma like it is the only option. You have CoH, Duress and a ton of other options other than enigma in the game
Some guides give straight up terrible advice. Especially on icy veins. That one suggests hoto/spirit for a trapsin… alright if you are teleporting constantly, but it makes your traps slow as molasses. If you want fast teleporting, pop a wizzy spike/spirit sword and lidless on swap and use claws to actually fight.
one of the most stupid things in this game is enigma and how broken teleport is, but hey imagine if they would implent an easier runeword for teleport, the forum would be overwhelmed with an ocean of crying
This is just wrong. Teleport is by far the most important efficiency increaser for farming for basically every build on every class. Enigma is the best farming armor in the game in every way, except for sorcs who already have teleport.
Bramble is not better for poison, because you can use teleport around to poison multiple areas at once and re-position your summons, as well as go through walls, optimally position for herding cows or targeting nova. Your iron golem and revives will also despawn regularly without teleport, making it so you can’t use powerful iron golems and you’ll waste a bunch of time making new revives. Moreover you don’t need more poison damage with good gear, with enigma and top-end gear your poison nova does 10k damage and 1-2 shots everything it hits with LR except bosses and monsters with innately high PR (like venom lords in CS). You just don’t know what you’re talking about.
so you can teleport.
easy to understand.
Why should sorc be the only one that can tele?